Word of the Day: FEMALIST


ETYMOLOGY
from female + -ist


EXAMPLE
“…Beauty can turn the rugged face of War,
  And make him smile upon delightful Peace,
  Courting her smoothly like a femalist.
  I grow a slave unto my potent love,
  Whose power change hearts, make our fate remove…”

From: The Insatiate Countesse: A Tragedie
By John Marston and William Barksted, 1613

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